LibertyBell

to get to 40 right?

we dont get severe weather here. and I dont want it lol. the costs of repair/replacement far outweigh any benefit I might get from experiencing it. Same reason why I dont like months on end of snowcover, thats why I'm on Long Island instead of at my other house where there's like 3 ft of snow cover on the ground at 2200 ft. I pay someone else to shovel it before I go there.

I remember when this has happened as snow was ending and we got pink snow! First time I saw this was in Jan 2004 when snowfall was ending around sunrise and the second time was near sunset when snow was ending in Feb 2009

Does the above mean that JFK recorded 0.2" snow?

I saw on the ptype radar there was a bubble of white that extended into Nassau County and the temp was at 32 so it was sticking to most surfaces. I didn't think much of it as I usually dont take pictures unless there's going to be at least 4 inches of snow. This JFK report says "wintry mix" but I can assure you it was all snow and rather large flakes here in this timeframe with temps right around 32, there was a nice covering on all surfaces until it changed back to rain at 1 PM https://www.wunderground.com/history/daily/us/ny/new-york-city/KJFK 11:24 AM 36 F 31 F 82 % SW 24 mph 29 mph 30.10 in 0.0 in Wintry Mix / Windy 11:29 AM 36 F 31 F 82 % SSW 23 mph 0 mph 30.09 in 0.0 in Wintry Mix / Windy 11:51 AM 35 F 31 F 85 % SSW 18 mph 0 mph 30.07 in 0.0 in Wintry Mix 11:56 AM 35 F 31 F 85 % SSW 15 mph 0 mph 30.06 in 0.0 in Wintry Mix 12:04 PM 34 F 31 F 89 % SSW 14 mph 0 mph 30.05 in 0.0 in Light Snow 12:39 PM 33 F 32 F 96 % S 3 mph 0 mph 30.00 in 0.1 in Light Snow 12:51 PM 33 F 33 F 100 % CALM 0 mph 0 mph 29.97 in 0.1 in Wintry Mix 12:56 PM 33 F 31 F 92 % NNE 3 mph 0 mph 29.96 in 0.0 in Wintry Mix 1:41 PM 33 F 31 F 92 % NE 10 mph 0 mph 29.88 in 0.1 in Rain 11:24 AM 36 F 31 F 82 % SW 24 mph 29 mph 30.10 in 0.0 in Wintry Mix / Windy 11:29 AM 36 F 31 F 82 % SSW 23 mph 0 mph 30.09 in 0.0 in Wintry Mix / Windy 11:51 AM 35 F 31 F 85 % SSW 18 mph 0 mph 30.07 in 0.0 in Wintry Mix 11:56 AM 35 F 31 F 85 % SSW 15 mph 0 mph 30.06 in 0.0 in Wintry Mix 12:04 PM 34 F 31 F 89 % SSW 14 mph 0 mph 30.05 in 0.0 in Light Snow 12:39 PM 33 F 32 F 96 % S 3 mph 0 mph 30.00 in 0.1 in Light Snow 12:51 PM 33 F 33 F 100 % CALM 0 mph 0 mph 29.97 in 0.1 in Wintry Mix 12:56 PM 33 F 31 F 92 % NNE 3 mph 0 mph 29.96 in 0.0 in Wintry Mix

sounds about right we had a half inch in SW Nassau from about 11 AM to 1 PM when it was snowing at a very nice rate

we had this kind of snowfall on Superbowl Sunday with 7-8 inches of all daylight snow- my favorite event of the whole season

dry and sunny would be a lot better (and temps in the 50s or higher of course)

springlike with lots of sunshine and low humidity would be awesome, not with yucky rain and clouds.

snowcover causes light pollution

Labor Day 1998 we had an F2 tornado about a mile from my house- the closest I've ever been to a tornado! April 1997 was a bust here for snow, it snowed more to our south and to our north, April 1996 was the much more impressive snowfall here.

People in Brooklyn and Manhattan reported seeing a nice rainbow near sunset

Don in SW Nassau we had a moderate snow for a few hours and it stuck to everything. It was a nice surprise- it actually started as rain at 10:45 and changed to snow at 11:15 and snowed through about 1 PM and was accumulating on all surfaces

I think we'll get to 40" even in a mild pattern another 2" wouldn't be that rare

cloudy and rainy is not my idea of a good time

as long as it doesn't rain I dont mind.

hey today's snow was nice, rather unexpected here for a few hours around mid day and it stuck to everything. Next week might be mild but it looks yucky and rainy all week- definitely NOT what I want

If we have a neutral next winter, do you think it will be a 89-90 type winter?

We're already in the Anthrocene, where humanity is killing off all other species, besides the ones we farm or keep as pets.

93-94 was the winter of record at ABE - it still is, I think? But it was close between 93-94 and 95-96 I dont know how the hell JFK only recorded 69 inches in 1995-96 looks like some mismeasuring going on there, and that includes the 4-5 they got in the April storm too. I was measuring snowfall that year on Long Island and recorded 83 inches. LOL@BGM's totals.....thats about as close as you can get!

lol we get that at my other house, there is a channel dedicated to 24 hr weather and it has the old graphics and forecasts and the music too. I wonder how they managed to do that?

but is that a nina pattern emerging or the fact that we had a -AO for so long it simply had to go positive at some point? Seems like AO drives our patterns more than any of these other indices do. So this might be a +AO pattern emerging not a nina pattern emerging.

my favorite March was 2015, which continued the amazing backside of winter that started in February.

were 1955-56 and 2017-18 more "nina like"? also in terms of widespread cold, were March-April 2018 much colder than the country as a whole had this season?

hey just for fun, can you post what 1899 looked like? since many want to compare this arctic outbreak to that one